No. When the Debian Xen packages are installed no guests are created.
For pygrub to be used you must have it explicitly enabled in the configuration files for the Xen guest, located beneath/etc/xen.
It will only be used if you've manually created a new Xen guest and chosen to use pygrub. Many (most?) Debian users create their new Xen guests via my xen-tools software and that doesn't even support pygrub setups at the moment...
If you see no mention of pygrub in/etc/xen/* then you're almost certainly safe.
Definitely agreed on Brust's books. I've bought all of them, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what comes next (after Dzur).
Another author who has done a decent job has been Terry Goodkind. His "Sword of Truth" series has kept moving in a nice fashion, after falling into "monster of the week" towards the middle of the series.
And to add more agreement - Terry Pratchett can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned! I have all of his books, including the childrens ones, and whilst the style has changed over the years it hasn't gotten worse.
My understanding is that there are notes in existence which describe how Frank was going to end the series after the cliffhanger ending which happened in Chapterhouse Dune - but that these weren't discovered until part-way through the prequel-writing process.
I recall from the various introductions to the prequels that Brian was trying to "ease himself into" the final novel by writing the prequels. (Poor justification IMHO.)
Personally I've given up reading the prequels, but I'm still hoping that the ending of the series will be readable and a good end. (My hopes aren't high though.)
Its hard to think of anybody who has done a good job at "carrying on" a series once the primary author has died. Even Christopher Tolkien has done as much bad as good..
I'm not convinced either, but at the same time I find references to "Micro$t" et all to be childish and more harmful than useful.
They project the impression that free software users/developers/supporters support something for personality reasons rather than clear technical superiority.
(Note that I've carefully said nothing that would identify the schools. This is intentional, so you might suspect that it might be schools in your area.;-)
Homepage: trillian.mit.edu
I think we can guess where you went to, even if that doesn't tell us where you came from..
I don't drive and I'm not an American, so I may be woefully ignorant.
I always had the impression if you failed one of those roadside tests they took you back to the station, then took a blood sample for confirmation of the result. Is that not the case?
If you refused to take a test at the roadside wouldn't they take you away to the station, arrest you for "Suspicion of drunk-driving", then forcibly take a blood sample?
The last time I saw Works installed and being used actively was in the late 90's.
Nowadays you sometimes see it as a "free bundle" with some cheap home PCs, the ones that don't come with office, but even there I can't imagine it being used for long.
I got stabbed in the arm with a pencil by my "best friend" when I was around 11 years old.
Even now aged 31 I have a small scar, with what looks like a tiny blue circle around it under the skin of my arm.
I'll happily claim it is my first tattoo! At the time I wasn't terribly worried about lead poisoning, but it is kinda neat how it has survived pretty unchanged over the years. I'd post a picture online, but it doesn't look terribly obvious unless you really look for it.
There are similarities there, but if I were to compare Harry Potter to anything it would be The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
If you've not read them the books are essentially about a boy, William Stanton, who "comes of age" on his 11th birthday and is told that he is the last of The Old Ones - magicians.
He goes on to collect talismans which are later used to defeat "The Dark", in much the same way that Harry Potter collected items to stop Voldemant getting them. The biggest difference is that the sides are split into factions (the Light and the Dark) and there is no single big-bad.
one reason Tolkien never wanted his work to be turned into a movie.
If you read his letters it's quite clear that he was quite stubborn about a lot of things, but ultimately he was happy to have his books converted to film(s).
Uh, considering 2000 was just NT 4.0 with the IE 4.0/Explorer shell jammed on and a bit of tweaking under the covers for DirectX,
Windows 2000 was the peak of Microsoft Windows as far as I'm concerned.
There were many more notable changes than those you list - probably the one that I cared about at the time was the support for USB-devices. I know I had USB devices which I couldn't use under NT 4, though to be honest I can't recall now if that was because USB support was unavailable at all or just not available for my devices.
I've been using Linux at home for many years now, but Windows 2000 was the only version of Windows I've used at different jobs that I was happy with. It had just the right mix between stability and features. (And no fisher price graphics!)
I run Debian's unstable branch (sid), but I still need to build packages against Sarge & Etch. With virtualisation I can have both those systems running with X, etc, installed upon them. Whilst you can get by with chroot()s having a fully running system, with networking etc, is a much nicer experience.
It is also very handy for testing deployments and system upgrades. Prior to upgrading several remote servers from Sarge -> Etch I was able to fully test this on a virtual install, to make sure that I would run into no problems.
There are many more reasons why you might want to use this kind of system on an average desktop, but these are enough for me.
I've been using facebook for a few months, initially to keep an eye on what local people were getting up to. But with the sudden spate of "applications" (many of them both badly coded and pointless) I'm finding myself less interested in returning.
I'm sure the facebook people don't care because I'm still a member and get included in their statistics, but the "old" facebook was more useful, and less myspace-like.
Damn. That's a name that brings back memories. I just searched for a copy of the source code (that and 'The Whale' which was judged pretty impressive at the time!) and came across 40HEX.
Slashdot Mirror
True, although Tomorrows World was notorious for two things:
Horace & The Spiders was my favourite game of that series, still you gave me some good memories there.
Even now I play The Hobbit under emulation, and the fantastic Chaos by Jullian Gallop.
No. When the Debian Xen packages are installed no guests are created.
For pygrub to be used you must have it explicitly enabled in the configuration files for the Xen guest, located beneath /etc/xen.
It will only be used if you've manually created a new Xen guest and chosen to use pygrub. Many (most?) Debian users create their new Xen guests via my xen-tools software and that doesn't even support pygrub setups at the moment...
If you see no mention of pygrub in /etc/xen/* then you're almost certainly safe.
Updating your timezone data for daylight savings changes....
Definitely agreed on Brust's books. I've bought all of them, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what comes next (after Dzur).
Another author who has done a decent job has been Terry Goodkind. His "Sword of Truth" series has kept moving in a nice fashion, after falling into "monster of the week" towards the middle of the series.
And to add more agreement - Terry Pratchett can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned! I have all of his books, including the childrens ones, and whilst the style has changed over the years it hasn't gotten worse.
My understanding is that there are notes in existence which describe how Frank was going to end the series after the cliffhanger ending which happened in Chapterhouse Dune - but that these weren't discovered until part-way through the prequel-writing process.
I recall from the various introductions to the prequels that Brian was trying to "ease himself into" the final novel by writing the prequels. (Poor justification IMHO.)
Personally I've given up reading the prequels, but I'm still hoping that the ending of the series will be readable and a good end. (My hopes aren't high though.)
Its hard to think of anybody who has done a good job at "carrying on" a series once the primary author has died. Even Christopher Tolkien has done as much bad as good ..
Oh no he didn't!
And now for something completely different ..
I thought you had to invert the polarity ..?
Agreed.
Theo has a nasty habit of being 100% accurate in his statements, but still being a massive troll.
Better yet:
I'm not convinced either, but at the same time I find references to "Micro$t" et all to be childish and more harmful than useful.
They project the impression that free software users/developers/supporters support something for personality reasons rather than clear technical superiority.
Homepage: trillian.mit.edu
I think we can guess where you went to, even if that doesn't tell us where you came from ..
Thanks. Today I'm learning something new!
I don't drive and I'm not an American, so I may be woefully ignorant.
I always had the impression if you failed one of those roadside tests they took you back to the station, then took a blood sample for confirmation of the result. Is that not the case?
If you refused to take a test at the roadside wouldn't they take you away to the station, arrest you for "Suspicion of drunk-driving", then forcibly take a blood sample?
Every time I receive a message asking me to verify my mail address for the privilege of communicating with somebody I just delete it an move on.
Nothing bugs me more than receiving a bug report via email, then being unable to reply back to the submitter without jumping through hoops.
Don't even get me started on why this kind of system is bad - or what happens when two people who use systems like this try to mail each other.
The last time I saw Works installed and being used actively was in the late 90's.
Nowadays you sometimes see it as a "free bundle" with some cheap home PCs, the ones that don't come with office, but even there I can't imagine it being used for long.
Interesting sounding book, I might take a look.
But for future reference "here" not "hear".
Agreed. I'm a mutt user, for example!
I got stabbed in the arm with a pencil by my "best friend" when I was around 11 years old.
Even now aged 31 I have a small scar, with what looks like a tiny blue circle around it under the skin of my arm.
I'll happily claim it is my first tattoo! At the time I wasn't terribly worried about lead poisoning, but it is kinda neat how it has survived pretty unchanged over the years. I'd post a picture online, but it doesn't look terribly obvious unless you really look for it.
There are similarities there, but if I were to compare Harry Potter to anything it would be The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper.
If you've not read them the books are essentially about a boy, William Stanton, who "comes of age" on his 11th birthday and is told that he is the last of The Old Ones - magicians.
He goes on to collect talismans which are later used to defeat "The Dark", in much the same way that Harry Potter collected items to stop Voldemant getting them. The biggest difference is that the sides are split into factions (the Light and the Dark) and there is no single big-bad.
If you read his letters it's quite clear that he was quite stubborn about a lot of things, but ultimately he was happy to have his books converted to film(s).
From memory he, and Ulwin, said:
(ie. cash or art).
Windows 2000 was the peak of Microsoft Windows as far as I'm concerned.
There were many more notable changes than those you list - probably the one that I cared about at the time was the support for USB-devices. I know I had USB devices which I couldn't use under NT 4, though to be honest I can't recall now if that was because USB support was unavailable at all or just not available for my devices.
I've been using Linux at home for many years now, but Windows 2000 was the only version of Windows I've used at different jobs that I was happy with. It had just the right mix between stability and features. (And no fisher price graphics!)
Yes I use virtualisation a lot.
I run Debian's unstable branch (sid), but I still need to build packages against Sarge & Etch. With virtualisation I can have both those systems running with X, etc, installed upon them. Whilst you can get by with chroot()s having a fully running system, with networking etc, is a much nicer experience.
It is also very handy for testing deployments and system upgrades. Prior to upgrading several remote servers from Sarge -> Etch I was able to fully test this on a virtual install, to make sure that I would run into no problems.
There are many more reasons why you might want to use this kind of system on an average desktop, but these are enough for me.
Exactly.
I've been using facebook for a few months, initially to keep an eye on what local people were getting up to. But with the sudden spate of "applications" (many of them both badly coded and pointless) I'm finding myself less interested in returning.
I'm sure the facebook people don't care because I'm still a member and get included in their statistics, but the "old" facebook was more useful, and less myspace-like.
Damn. That's a name that brings back memories. I just searched for a copy of the source code (that and 'The Whale' which was judged pretty impressive at the time!) and came across 40HEX.
I used to read them back in the day.